Thanks to those who replied to my question. Yesterday I took one of my HPN prints to a camera group Coffee & Critique session and passed it around. It came back to me with no evidence of flaking. So perhaps the review reports were of early batches and those problems have been worked out now.
Has anyone tried printing on it with the Claria dye inks?
Mike Brubaker
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On Mon, 6/27/16, 'Sylvain M.' sylvain@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson Hot Press Natural
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 27, 2016, 2:57 AM
Epson Hot Press papers (Natural and Bright) are
actually my favourite papers. They are nice, give high Dmax
with carbon matte inks (I get 1.70 with Eboni 1.0) with very
smart tones, and the prints do not seem to be fragile at
all. Like all matte papers, if you put your fingers on dark
zones you might get some traces, but I noticed that Hot
Press prints are far less sensitive to scratches than
Hahnemühle papers (Photorag or Bamboo). In fact, I do not
use any protection.
The only drawback of Hot Press papers is that they are
difficult to find in Europe at a good price. As off today,
I've been buying them directly in the USA...
My2c
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Sylvain M.
Le 2016-06-26 14:51, brubaker_family@...
[DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] a écrit :
I recently bought a box of 8.5X11 Epson HPN to
experiment with and read some reviews before printing on it.
The reviews noted that the surface is very fragile and
suggestions were to use a protective spray after printing.
Is this still the experience of group members?
I made some prints using the Eboni 6 inks in my
1430 via QTR and Paul Roark's recommended settings of
the HPN-BO and the HPN-Eb6 profiles with an 80-40-0 split
tone and liked the results a lot.
Mike Brubaker
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Re: [Digital BW] Epson Hot Press Natural
2016-07-10 by Brubaker family